Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Plan Sessions 6 7 & 8

Session 6 7 8
Voice recording, filming of The Fabulous Fairy Tales and Fables of Minecraft
AFK
In a team meeting the teams will discuss and plan the process to record the speaking parts for each character of their film. They will need to divide the lines and rehearse their lines.
8 mins
Teams must decide on the order they will record their parts. Each character will use Crazytalk to animate their Mineraft avatar to speak their parts. They will record all their lines of dialogue one after the other. For each line that is recorded the students must give it a name and export it to the desktop. The students can  later edit them into correct script order in Final Cut Pro.
In World
Students work in groups, pairs and singles to film specific scene of their films.
Each team member is to log into Minecraft and take a screen shot of their avatar character in the right setting or the required scene.
Command shift 3 is the function short cut to screen capture.
They are to begin with scenes including dialogue, use the Crazytalk software as the tool to bring the animation to life.
Begin filming speaking scenes for the movie
Each team member will record all the lines for their speaking scenes. They will export them to the desktop from the Crazytalk software. Each scene must be appropriately labelled eg Niko scene 1 line 1. Import all speaking scenes and last weeks action scene to the timeline in Final Cut Pro Ready for editing

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Editing the filmed scenes
Final Cut Pro
To begin todays new film project the teams will need to:
Open Final Cut Pro
File new event, file new project.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Session 5 plan The Fabulous Fairytales and Fables of Minecraft


Session 5

AFK

Creating story board of the film based on the story written in their home group class.
Draw scenes from the film that tell the main event in the story/script the team has developed.
 the sory board can have as much detail as the team requires to enalbe them to construct the sets in minecraft.

Software

Use Photobooth software to photograph each scene.
Drop the photo into Comic Life software and annotate.
annotations must include, scene number, setting, characters emotions or short phrases of dialogue.
This will become an electronic story board that can be refered to duirng the set building an filming phase.
Save these files as both a document and a PDF file and save to the sever.

Minecraft
Team meeting
In this time the teams need to allocate roles to each member. They are to work together to construct the set that will be used in the first scene of theiir film. (As per the story board)
Goal set
Building Role assignment and clarification

In World
Student willl spawn or be teleported to the location station for their class. They are to find their team mates and move to a suitable location not to far from their location station.
Begin building their first set.
 

Minecraft Script Grade 4-6

Script written for Minecraft Film created by four students